PRINCE Harry has claimed the stress of Meghan Markle’s letter to her father being leaked to the press was to blame for her miscarriage.
The Duchess of Sussex was in the middle of a court battle over the publication of the handwritten note when she lost a baby.
Prince Harry has blamed his wife’s miscarriage on the stress of her private letter to her dad being published
Meghan in the latest instalment of the Sussexes’ Netflix documentary
She has previously spoken about how difficult she found the lawsuit against Associated Newspapers – publisher of the Mail On Sunday and MailOnline – which printed five articles that reproduced parts of the “personal and private” correspondence with her dad Thomas.
This came to a head in the summer of 2020 – a year after son Archie was born and around the same time Meghan miscarried.
No connection has been drawn before, but in the latest instalment of their Netflix documentary Harry, 38, claimed they lost their unborn child “because of what the Mail did”.
In episode six, recounting the effect of the legal action, the duchess said: “I was pregnant, I really wasn’t sleeping and the first morning that we woke up in our new home is when I miscarried.”
Harry went on to say: “I believe my wife suffered a miscarriage because of what the Mail did.
“I watched the whole thing.
“Now, do we absolutely know that the miscarriage was caused by that? Course we don’t.
“But bearing in mind the stress that caused, the lack of sleep and the timing of the pregnancy – how many weeks in she was – I can say from what I saw, that miscarriage was created by what they were trying to do to her.”
The former actress won her legal fight with Associated Newspapers in 2021, with a High Court judge ruling it breached her privacy when it printed the letter she had written to her father.
Speaking about Meghan‘s experience, her mother, Doria Ragland, added: “I thought she was brave and courageous.
“But that doesn’t surprise me because she is brave and courageous.”
At this point, the episode refers to the piece Meghan wrote for The New York Times with the headline “The Losses We Share”.
In it, she bravely opened up about her “unbearable grief” to support other women who “go through it in silence”.
The bombshell Netflix documentary also revealed…
- How the Queen told Meghan to handle the drama with her dad Thomas
- Meghan was branded a ‘foreign organism’ by a Palace aide, she claims
- How Harry claims William screamed at him during crisis Megxit talks
- What Harry misses about the UK
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The duchess said in the docu-series: “When I reveal things that are moments of vulnerability, when it comes to having a miscarriage and maybe having felt ashamed about that, like, it’s OK, you’re human, it’s OK to talk about that.
“And I could make the choice to never talk about those things, or I could make the choice to say with all the bad that comes with this, the good is being able to help other people.
“That’s the point of life, right, is connection and community like that.”
Buckingham Palace has said it will be making no comment on the new Netflix episodes.
The Sussexes with their son Archie and daughter Lilibet at her first birthday party
Meghan won her legal fight with Associated Newspapers
